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When you meet them again in the “main” game, with Eliwood, they will again join the party. However, if you lose a character in the tutorial, they will only be unavailable for the remainder of the tutorial. If a character dies in battle, then they’re lost to your party. It’s a generally difficult game, and permadeath is important to it. Chances are that the first time you play Fire Emblem you will lose a character. Mechanically, it plays a role too, as it allowed the developer to introduce permadeath to players, but also allows them to circumvent it one time.

It’s also important for continuity, as it helps to connect the two stories together and makes the events of the tutorial feel relevant.

This is neat because it keeps you interested through the first few chapters of the new story – you’ll be wondering when your favourite character will show up again, as you start to develop a connection to the new cast as well. By approaching things the way the development team did with Fire Emblem – by writing an efficient and almost self-contained narrative specifically to house the tutorial – Fire Emblem’s main plot hits the ground running and from the very first level it feels like it is of consequence and you’re playing the “full game.”īut then something really cool starts to happen – you start meeting all the characters that you played with through the tutorial, and they rejoin your party, at the same experience level that they had at the end of Lyn’s story arc.

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The pace of the narrative is disrupted, constantly, at the start as the game explains to you how to play it, and this can impact on your relationship with the characters and first impression of the general plot. By the time you’ve worked through the tutorial part, you’re already deep into the narrative. This is such a neat way of overcoming a common problem that Fire Emblem titles – and JRPGs in general – face. The only difference is that there’s no tutorial. You meet Eliwood very briefly during Lyn’s story arc, so the connection between the two characters and setting is established, but you are effectively starting from scratch again, and this means you’ve only got a few units, and everyone is first level again. Far from being the end of the game, of course, you’ll discover after a closing cut scene that now you’re in control of a new hero – Eliwood – and his allies. Then, at the 11 th level, you’ll get to fight Lundgren, defeat him, and close the narrative arc. You’ll run through all the standard tutorial prompts, and both tactically and mechanically, these levels are limited as is standard for tutorials. Another shows what magic users and healers do. Another shows you how to promote a character to a more powerful class. One level introduces you to the strengths of the archers and Pegasus knights, for instance.

Each chapter in this story arc introduces you to new characters and gameplay mechanics.

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This was actually the seventh title in the series to have been released in Japan, but I do think it was the perfect introduction to the series in the West, and the main reason for that is its tutorial.įire Emblem starts off with an 11-chapter story arc that introduces you to Lyn, and a host of other characters, as they struggle to rescue Lyn’s grandfather and liberate her castle from her evil uncle, Lundgren. I want to use this opportunity to go back to the very first Fire Emblem to be released in English, Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade (simply called “Fire Emblem” for the Western release). Fire Emblem Engage releases this month as the latest in Nintendo and Intelligent Systems’ long-running and highly lauded properties.

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